From the course: Choosing a Cross-Platform Development Tool

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Tools and technologies

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Tools and technologies

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- [Narrator] Xamarin is a cross platform development framework based on the motto, open source.NET platform, and later acquired an open source by Microsoft. It uses the C sharp programming language throughout. It allows developers to create native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and more. Xamarin is integrated into Visual Studio, Microsoft's best of breed integrated development environment. Although technically, developers can write Xamarin code in a variety of editors, nearly all Xamarin work is done in Visual Studio. One of the chief benefits of Xamarin is the ability to separate the shared business logic of your app from its UI. Estimates range from 70 to 90% of code and the business logic tier can be used across platforms. Xamarin also provides the Xamarin.Forms package, allowing users to develop even the UI using C sharp, thus providing a single development stack from multiple platforms. The…

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